A vulnerability has been found in Microsoft Windows 7 (Operating System) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function of the component User Account Control. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, and integrity.

The bug was discovered 10/10/2012. The weakness was presented 10/10/2012 by Rob Fuller and Chris Gates as 21843 as not defined exploit (Exploit-DB). The advisory is shared at exploit-db.com. The public release happened without involvement of Microsoft. An attack has to be approached locally. The successful exploitation requires a single authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

A public exploit has been developed by Rob Fuller/Chris Gates in Ruby and been published immediately after the advisory. It is possible to download the exploit at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. We expect the 0-day to have been worth approximately $100k and more.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (21843). See 6854 for similar entry.

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• Operating System

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• Microsoft

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• Windows

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• 7

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• commercial

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• end of life (old version)

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